Toot Toot!!

I've been given a blog award!! I was nominated by Aymme who has a wonderful blog herself!! Check her out at http://southernbellescrapper.blogspot.com/. Aymme does beautiful and really fun cards and LO's and she is all about some stickles!! Anyway, thanks for the award Aymee!!

Now, I get to nominate 5 people too. Here are the links to their exceptional blogs. Be sure to stop by and check them out!

1. Sharon's cards. This lady has it goin' on!! She is one of the craftiest people I've ever seen on the net. Go check her out at http://grammashouseofcards.blogspot.com/.

2. Shelly's card blog. Shelly does beautiful work and she is definitely worth checking out. Go to http://www.cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/ to see her great creativity.

3. Kazan from 2Sketches4u. WOW! Kazan is so talented. I check her out every day to see what new piece she has created. She has been published several times on some of the best websites and in several magazines. Don't miss this one. She is at http://nunutoolies.blogspot.com/.

4. Cindy. What a great blog of creativity and family. Be sure to go over to her space at http://cincpa.blogspot.com/.

5. And finally, Pam. Pam does simply beautiful work. She uses alot of Pazzles designs and does truly beautiful cards. Check her out at http://yorkiemomsblog.blogspot.com/.

The rules that go along with this award are:

1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

4. Put links to their blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

It's ELMO!!!!

This card is for a friend's granddaughter who will be 2 this week. She's having a Sesame Street birthday so I HAD to use Elmo!! I just love him!! TFL!

Birthday for a friend.......

This card is for a friend of mine (her initial is B). I love the pink/black/white colors together. The branch was cut with the Cricut using the Storybook cart. TFL!

It's Christmas time!!

So, like all of my other crafting sisters, I've been working on Christmas cards. You can see below the ones I've gotten completed. I've used mostly Paper Studio papers and some of their stickers. I've also used the great Martha Stewart branch punch. (LOVE that thing!!). Also included are some of the MS border punches, liquid pearls, glitter, cuttlebug embossing folders, some odd ribbons from HL and M's and of course.....my Cricut!! I have several more to make, but thought I would share some of the first bunch. TFL!!

Pink Christmas ???

Yes! It's the challenge this week at the Christmas All Year Round blog. We were asked to use pink and green, polka dots and 2 flowers on the card. I couldn't believe I had the perfect Christmas paper for this challenge! The patterned paper is all Paper Studio. The flowers are Greenhouse by American Crafts and the ribbon is some that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. I ran the tree thru the Cuttlebug using the swirls embossing folder. I also used a Martha Stewart border punch around my greeting. This was fun! It's my first time to participate with Christmas All Year Round and I look forward to their next challenge. TFL!!

Monogrammed note cards........

I am working on 16 sets of note cards that I have sold. Here is a sample. I used the cricut - Mini Monograms to cut out the "T" and circle. I matted the negative space with black and added some black ribbon at the bottom. Simple - but kinda cute, I think. TFL!!

Happy Birthday, Josh!!

Today is my son Josh's 25th birthday. Josh is such a special person. He is the "peacekeeper" with all of his siblings, kindhearted, stubborn (like his dad), and very, very smart!! He passed his CPA exam the first time he took it! (Now how many people can do that?!). I am so glad he is a part of my world. He always makes me smile. Happy birthday, son. Love you!! (Oh, and here is the card that I made for him too).